[spp title=”Good News for You!”]
Well, I have good news for you! Anybody can get a free entrance ticket to Heaven! Anybody can be taken into the arms of love and receive the joy, fulfillment and everlasting love that God wants to give each of us, both here and in the life to come — and that includes you! It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter where you’ve been or what you’ve done. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad you are — because none of us can be good enough to earn a place in Heaven.
The Bible says that only those who are perfect can earn a place in Heaven. But since none of us are perfect, none of us deserve to go there through our own merit. That’s why God sent His Son, Jesus, to this earth 2,000 years ago. Jesus paid our way by dying for our sins, and so, through simply believing in Him as our Savior, we can be sure of a place in Heaven. That relieves us of the burden of having to be good enough to go to Heaven, which we couldn’t do anyway, because after all, we’re only human. Jesus took our burden for us, and therefore all we have to do is believe and receive the gift of salvation that He wants to give us.
He’s opened the door for you to the life beyond, and all you have to do is walk through it by believing. You can’t earn it, neither can you be too bad for it, because Jesus loves you just the way you are. He knows you, and He knows what’s inside of you and everything you’ve done, even your deepest secrets. He knows it all, but He loves you anyway, because His love is infinite.
His love is so far beyond anything that we can understand or see with our eyes here on earth. His love can fix any mistake, right any wrong, fill any emptiness and heal any pain or hurt. His love can bring joy where there was sorrow, laughter where there was pain, and fulfillment where there was uselessness and misery.
He wants to give you all these things now, here on this earth, plus a place in Heaven when your time here is done. He longs for you and your loved ones to be united and happy forever with Him, and that’s why He gave His life for you. He’s reaching out to you with this gift now. Just take His love! Take it now, take it today!
You can receive His love and a place in Heaven by simply praying this little prayer: “Dear Jesus, I believe that You love me, and that You came for love and died for me so that I can be free, so that I could live in Heaven for eternity. I ask You to give me this gift of Your love now. Fill the emptiness in my life and give me fulfillment and happiness. Help me to give this same love to others, so that they can be happy too. I accept Your gift of my reservation in Heaven.”
There! It’s just that simple! All you had to do was open your heart, and Jesus is there now, and He’ll be with you forever. You can never lose Him! You’ve got a permanent reservation in Heaven that can never be canceled!
God has now placed this gift of love in your heart, and whenever you need Him, you can call out to Him, and He’ll help you with His love.
Although it was a free gift, now that you have His love in your heart, He wants you to do what you can to love others, and to pass on the love He has given you so that others can also experience joy in their lives — both here and in Heaven also!
Will you show love to others? Will you do what you can to make their lives better, even if it’s only giving a smile, saying a kind word or lending a helping hand? Simple deeds of love and kindness go a long way and can make such a difference in someone’s life. Now that you have a little bit of Heaven in your heart, help put a little bit of Heaven in someone else’s heart today.
God loves you, and He’s looking forward to living with you in Heaven for eternity! And so am I! I’ll see you there!
(Written by Maria David. Maria David is the spiritual head of the Family, a nonprofit volunteer Christian missionary movement with operations around the globe, whose mission is to bring spiritual and physical assistance, hope and God’s love to others.)
Copyright (c) 1998 by The Family International
